US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on June 16 for "Method for ascertaining an operating angle between a tractor and a trailer of the tractor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,108, issued on June 16, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for ascertaining an operating angle between a tractor and a trailer of the tractor" was invented by Uwe Maehnert (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Jerg Pfeil (Cleebronn, Germany) and Martin Goth (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ascertaining an operating angle between a tractor and a trailer of the tractor. The method includes: ascertaining camera images carried out in a chronologically consecutive manner with the aid of at least one rear-facing camera situated on the tractor; detecting structures of the trailer in the ...